A Fast Workflow for Identification and Quantification of Proteomes

Abstract

The current in-depth proteomics makes use of long chromatography gradient to get access to more peptides for protein identification, resulting in covering of as many as 8000 mammalian gene products in 3 days of mass spectrometer running time. Here we report a fast sequencing (Fast-seq) workflow of the use of dual reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography -mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) with a short gradient to achieve the same proteome coverage in 0.5 day. We adapted this workflow to a quantitative version (Fast quantification, Fast-quan) that was compatible to large-scale protein quantification. We subjected two identical samples to the Fast-quan workflow, which allowed us to systematically evaluate different parameters that impact the sensitivity and accuracy of the workflow. Using the statistics of significant test, we unraveled the existence of substantial falsely quantified differential proteins and estimated correlation of false quantification rate and parameters that are applied in label-free quantification. We optimized the setting of parameters that may substantially minimize the rate of falsely quantified differential proteins, and further applied them on a real biological process. With improved efficiency and throughput, we expect that the Fast-seq/Fast-quan workflow, allowing pair wise comparison of two proteomes in 1 day may make MS available to the masses and impact biomedical research in a positive way. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 12: 10.1074/mcp.M112.025023, 2370-2380, 2013.The performance of mass spectrometry has been improved tremendously over the last few years (1-3), making mass spectrometry-based proteomics a viable approach for largescale protein analysis in biological research. Scientists around the world are striving to fulfill the promise of identifying and quantifying almost all gene products expressed in a cell line or tissue. This would make mass spectrometry-based protein analysis an approach that is compatible to the second-generation mRNA deep-seq technique (4, 5).Two liquid chromatography (LC)-MS strategies have been employed to achieve deep proteome coverage. One is a single run with a long chromatography column and gradient to take advantage of the resolving power of HPLC to reduce the complexity of peptide mixtures; the other is a sequential run with two-dimensional separation (typically ion-exchange and reverse phase) to reduce peptide complexity. It was reported by two laboratories that 2761 and 4500 proteins were identified with a 10 h chromatography gradient on a dual pressure linear ion-trap orbitrap mass spectrometer (LTQ Orbitrap Velos)(6 -8). Similarly, 3734 proteins were identified using a 8 h gradient on a 2 m long column with a hybrid triple quadrupole -time of flight (Q-TOF, AB sciex 5600 Q-TOF)(9) mass spectrometer. The two-dimensional approach has yielded more identification with longer time. For example, 10,006 proteins (representing over 9000 gene products, GPs) 1 were identified in U2OS cell (10), and 10,255 proteins (representing 9207 GPs) from HeL...

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